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I No. 788,660. PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

J. LINDAUER.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB a. 1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

JULIUS LINDAUER, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,660, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed February 8, 1905. Serial No.244,'771.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS LINDAUER,& subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at 42 Faubourg du Temple, Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in corsets.

In corsets adapted to be laced in the back steels or whalebones are arranged along the line of eyes through which the lace or laces is or are passed, said steels or whalebones being for the purpose of strengthening the back and preventing the fabric from crinkling or wrinkling at each side of the eyes. All these strengthening steels or bones always extend through the waistdine, generally about from the top of the back to the bottom, and they have the disadvantage of preventing the corsets from fitting exactly to the back at the waist and small of the back by reason of their rigidity, and thus unnecessarily increase the size of the waist.

The present invention relates to a particular construction of the back of the corsets which by preventing the crinkling or wrinkling of the fabric at the back on each side of the lace-eyes permits of the corsets perfectly fitting to the back and shape of the waist. The size of the Waist is thus reduced without causing any inconvenience to the wearer, since this reduction results from the corsets adapting themselves to the exact shape of the body without requiring tighter lacing. This construction of the back of the corsets consists in arranging the whalebones on the inside of each line of eyes in two sections meeting exactly at the Waist-line,one eye only being situated between the adjacent ends of the bone-sections, the looping ends of the laces terminating in said eye, which thus di .rectly receives all the pull during tightening. The interruption of the whalebones at the waist-line combined with the single eye situated at the point of interruption, however nearer to the edge than the remaining eyes, and all the lacing strain being exerted on said eye permits of completely removing the empty or vacant space which usually exists between the back steels or bones and the body of the wearer, said two steel or whalebone sections pivoting, as it were, about the central eye, while the corset can freely expand above and below this eye, according to the wearers figure, thus permitting the corsets to be laced snugly to the exact shape at the central part of the waist without inconvenience.

Figure 1 of the annexed drawings shows the back of a corset produced according to the present invention, the corset being represented laced on a form. Fig. Zis an elevation in detail of part of the back of the corset and showing the method of lacing. Figs. 3 and 4 show,on an enlarged scale, the central part of one of the rear sides of the corsets, Fig. 3 being asection on the line AA of Fig. 4 and the latter an elevation.

The back of the corset is provided, as usual, with two rows of eyes (0 a and a a, situated one on each oi. the two parts of the corset. Outside each row is arranged, as heretofore, a whalebone Z) or b, respectively, which extends for the whole height; but inside each row of eyes instead of one whalebone extending for the whole height, as aforesaid, there are engaged two pieces or lengths of Whalebone 0 and (Z or a and d, respectively, which meet or are connected just at the waist-line. Between said two pieces is located an eye 0 or 0, this single eye thus being situated nearer the edge than the row of eyes a or a. The laces, which pass alternately through the eyes (a and a of the two rows, have their ends pass in pairs through each of the special eyes 0 and 0, so that in pulling the laces the strain is exerted directly on said two eyes and be ing thus concentrated on the waist-line tends to draw the corresponding part of the corsets firmly to the wearers waist, this being permitted by the whalebones c and (Z and c and d, the sections of which pivot about the eyes 0 and 0 similarly to a knucklejoint. The appearance presented by the back of the corsets after lacing is shown in Fig. 1.

For preventing the back of the corsets from tearing at the point of the central eye 0 or 0' during or after the pulling of the laces a flexible continuous whalebone g is usually placed along the interior edge of each back part.

This, however, does not prevent the whalebone-sections 0 and (Z and 0 and d to pivot around the eyes 0 and 0' under the strain, as hereinabove explained. corsets could also be stiffened and strengthened in the neighborhood of the eyes 0 and 0' by means of seams It or it for preventing crinkling and tearing of the fabric at this point.

The eyes 0 and 0 may be ordinary eyes; but they are preferably strengthened by means of heads or circular platesforin' stance, as shown in the drawings. The lacing is so effected that the end of.the lace passes twice through each eye 0 or 0. The lace end from the upper part of the corsets passes out through the eye 0, is then folded on itself, again enters said eye 0, and is then directed toward the lower part of the corsets. The same is the case with the other eye, 0. For preventing the lace being pulled out of the eyes 0 and 0 during unlacing a small ring Z or Z may be threaded upon each end of the lace and rests in the loop formed by each lace end outside the eyes 0 and 0, such ring being of such a diameter as not to pass through the eyes. Each eye 0 and 0 is arranged opposite the space between two ordinary eyes (6 a of the corresponding row, this space being usually of double the width than that between the remaining eyes of the row; but said space could be reduced without inconvenience.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A corset-back for corsets lacing in the back, comprising a row of eyes a situated on one part of the corset, a row of eyes a situated on the other part of the corset, a whalebone 6 arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, a whalebone 5 arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, two whalebone-sections c and (Z extending respectively from the waist-line toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, two whalebone-sections 0' and cl extending respectively from the waist-line toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, an eye 0 situated on the waist-line between the adjacent ends of the whalebone-sections c and (Z, an eye 0 situated on the waist-line between the adjacent ends of the whalebonesections c and CZ, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A corset-back for corsets lacing in the back, comprising a row of eyes a situated on one part of the corset, a row of eyes a situated The fabric of the on the other part of the corset, a whalebone 6 arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, a whalebone Z) arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, two whalebonesections 0 and (Z extending respectively from the waist-line toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, two whalebone-sections c and cl extending respectively from the waistline toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, an eye 0 situated on the waist-line between the adjacent ends of the whalebonesections a and d, an eye 0 situated on the waistline between the adjacent ends of the whale bone-sections 0 and (1., and a lacing having its ends, upon which the strain is exerted for the tightening of the corset, passing in pairs through the eyes 0 and 0, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A corset-back for corsets lacing in the back, comprising a row of eyes a situated on one part of the corset, a row of eyes a situated on the other part of the corset, a whalebone Z) arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, a whalebone 6 arranged along the row of eyes a and on the outside, two whalebonesections 0 and d extending respectively from the waist-line toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, two whalebone-sections c and d extending respectively from the waistline toward the top and bottom of the corset along the row of eyes a and on the inside, near the edge, an eye 0 situated on the waist-line between the adjacent ends of the whalebonesections 0 and (Z, an eye 0 situated on the waistline between the adjacent ends of the whalebone-sections 0 and d, alacing having its ends, upon which the strain is exerted for the tightening of the corset, passing in pairs through the eyes 0 and 0, aflexible continuous whalebone 9 arranged on the interior edge of the part of the corset along the section 0, the eye 0 and the section (Z, a flexible continuous whalebone 9 arranged on the interior edge of the other part of the corset along the section 0, the eye 0, and the section cl, and a suitable number of cross-seams h it made on the fabric respectively in the neighborhood of the eyes 0 and 0,'substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JULIUS LINDAUER. Witnesses:

LoUIs YosE, JOHN BAKER. 

